The research is part of Cisco's VNI series, an ongoing set of Cisco-developed research reports designed to predate global traffic growth, and the Global Mobile Data update focuses on consumer and business mobile data traffic and its key drivers. Cisco uses third-party sources for some of its data collection -- such as service providers' expectations for subscriber growth in certain market segments -- but develops the research and conclusions in-house.

CRN got a look at some of the findings, and here are 10 data points from the mobile data VNI to ponder.